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Phagocytosis promotes programmed cell death in C. elegans.
Nature - 12 Jul 2001
Reddien P W, Cameron S, Horvitz H R
Abstract excerpt
In the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans programmed cell death requires the killer genes egl-1, ced-4 and ced-3 (refs 1 and 2), and the engulfment of dying cells requires the genes ced-1, ced-2, ced-5, ced-6, ced-7, ced-10 and ced-12 (refs 3,4,5). Here we show that engulfment promotes programmed cell death. Mutations that cause partial loss of function of killer genes allow the survival of some cells that are...
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